[systemd-devel] Prioritize the /etc configuration over /usr/lib also with .include

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Wednesday 17 of September 2014 20:06:50 Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> В Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:40:11 +0200
> Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> пишет:
> 
> > On Wednesday 17 of September 2014 11:50:08 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 08:52:00AM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > > > Thanks, I agree, and yet another rule on top of that -- the /usr/lib
> > > > dropins _are ignored_ if /etc service overriding the one in /usr/lib
> > > > exists [1] which seems like it is expected (and I appreciate that
> > > > behavior).
> > >
> > > Sorry, but the .include mechanism is deprecated (and almost unused
> > > nowadays)
> > 
> > Note that the thing that .include changed its semantics due to drop-in
> > feature is not really proper deprecation.  Nor any documentation, warnings
> > about its usage, etc.
>
> I reread your original post and I still fail to see what has
> changed. IIRC ".include file" always meant "literally inline content of file
> in place of .include line". This is exactly what still happens now. Do
> you have pointers to old documentation that stated something different?

Say that A.service .includes B.service.  Because B.service was correctly
inlined before, A.service was able to re-define results of .include.

Pavel